Frederik Philippi

Ionic Liquids Research

Professional Experience

05/2024 – present

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

MSCA Fellow
  • Highly competitive fellowship funded by the European Union (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions).
  • Total score of the proposal evaluation 96.8%.
  • Research project on ‘Porous Ionic Liquids for Sustainable Energy’ in the Ionic Liquids Group at ENS de Lyon.

10/2022 – 04/2024

Yokohama National University

JSPS Fellow
  • Research project on ‘Design of Novel Solvate Electrolytes for High Performance Lithium Ion Batteries’.
  • Combination of in silico screening and experimental screening of novel highly concentrated electrolytes
  • MD simulations in cooperation with Wataru Shinoda (Okayama University)
  • Correlated ion motion and Onsager coefficients in cooperation with Monika Schönhoff (The University of Münster)
  • Supervision of a Bachelor student who subsequently received numerous awards for her work
  • Responsible for orders of chemicals and equipment

Imperial College London

Research visits to other groups
  • Oriele Palumbo (Rome, Italy 02.05.2022-20.05.2022), Dynamical Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA) experiments on ionic liquids.
  • Agilio Padua and Margarida Costa-Gomes (Lyon, France 11.10.2021-15.10.2021), discussion and exchanging knowledge regarding the combination of theory and experiments on ionic liquids.
  • Barbara Kirchner (Bonn, Germany 29.04.2019-10.05.2019), use of TRAVIS and LAMMPS software, MD simulations.
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for orders of chemicals, consumables, and repairs (Total turnover 31907 £).
  • Responsible for the categories “Ventilation” and “Research Quality” during the group’s application for the LEAF award recognition (Awarded with LEAF 2020 Silver)
  • Central laboratory responsibilities: Superuser for the Solvent purification systems, creating lab rotas, glovebox, drybox, pressure reactor, pH meter, Karl Fisher titrator and Powder XRD measurements.
  • Developed standard operating procedures for handling of cyanogen bromide and piranha solution
Graduate teaching assistant in the Chemistry Department
  • Demonstrating the 3rd year liquid simulation experiment (LAMMPS, winter 2021/2022)
  • Marking and organisation for the 3rd year liquid simulation experiment (LAMMPS, winter 2020/2021)
  • Demonstrating the 3rd year liquid simulation experiment (LAMMPS, winter 2019/2020)
  • 2nd year inorganic computational labs (gaussian, summer 2019)
  • Marking for the 2nd year molecular reaction dynamics computational lab (summer 2019)
  • 1st year computational labs (gaussian, spring 2019)
  • 2nd year organic synthesis labs (Menthol oxidation, spring 2019)
Professional Development / Graduate School Programme
  • Comprehensive extracurricular professional development, comprising of 25 courses such as Project Management, Research Integrity, Poster Presentation, Data Management and High Performance Computing.

03/2014 – 09/2018

SAARLAND UNIVERSITY

Several employments as scientific assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry
  • Creation of pupil-based experiments with ionic liquids
  • Synthesis and characterisation of phosphonium ionic liquids
  • Responsible for the safe handling of KCN and PH3
  • Academic tutor for the undergraduate course in thermodynamics
  • Supervisor for the advanced physical chemistry lab course (PCF)

12/2014 – 02/2015

Scientific assistant at the institute for physical and theoretical chemistry
  • Academic tutor for the undergraduate course 'introduction into physical chemistry'

09/2012 – 08/2013

Voluntary work (FSJ) for one year at the Schülerlabor 'NanoBioLab'
  • Devised, prepared and supervised pupil-based experiments
  • Carried out analytical and preparative laboratory work
  • Participated in the organisation of several events including a one-week lab tour for pupils, the annual meeting of Schülerlabors and the open day of the university.
  • Courses in presentation, excel, first aid, radiation and fire protection, typewriting, etc.
  • Provided compressed gases, liquid nitrogen and dry ice when required.

Education

10/2018 – 07/2022

Imperial College London

PhD, Chemistry

PhD in chemistry in the group of Professor Dr. Tom Welton, working on ionic liquid design.

Highly collaborative project (involving 17 research groups from 10 countries).

Fully funded by the highly competitive 'President's PhD Scholarships' awarded by Imperial College London.


10/2016 – 09/2018

Saarland University

Master of Science, Chemistry

M.Sc. thesis in physical chemistry, topic ‘Combining Theory and Experiment in the Optimization of Ionic Liquids’ (1.0, highest mark).
Overall grade point average 1.0.


10/2013 – 09/2016

Saarland University

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry

B.Sc. thesis in physical chemistry, topic ‘synthesis and ionicity of phosphonium ionic liquids’ (1.0, highest mark).
Overall grade point average 1.0.

Professional Memberships

07/2024 – present

Member of the Durham Institute of Research, Development, and Invention MDIRDI


05/2019 – present

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy AFHEA


12/2018 – present

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry MRSC


10/2013 – present

Member of the German chemical society (GDCh)

Presentations

20/12/2024

Frederik Philippi

Lithium Transport in Solvate Electrolytes.

Invited Oral presentation at the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.


25/10/2024

Frederik Philippi

Confounding Variables in the Design of Ionic Liquids.

Invited Oral presentation for the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics research axis of the Laboratoire de Chimie, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France.


08/07/2024

Frederik Philippi, Maleen Middendorf, Keisuke Shigenobu, Kaoru Dokko, Masayoshi Watanabe, Monika Schönhoff, Wataru Shinoda, Kazuhide Ueno

Speciation and Ion Correlation in Highly Concentrated Battery Electrolytes.

Poster presentation at the Dense Ionic Fluids Faraday Discussion, London, UK.


21/11/2023

Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Daniel Schroeder, Christopher W. M. Kay, Tom Welton

Highly Symmetric Room Temperature Ionic Liquids.

Poster presentation at The 13th Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Japan (第13回イオン液体討論会), Niigata, Japan.


09/06/2023

Frederik Philippi

Science – the tool that made our lives comfortable.

Oral presentation at Numazuhigashi Senior High School as part of the JSPS Science Dialogue program. Two hour outreach lecture with question session for approximately 100 high school students.


25/04/2023

Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Tom Welton

Viscosity and design of imide ionic liquids – flexibility, fluorination, and mass of the anions.

Poster presentation at 9th Congress on Ionic Liquids, Lyon, France.


24/04/2023

F. Philippi, K. Shigenobu, K. Dokko, M. Watanabe, K. Ueno

Conductivity vs. Lithium transference – the ongoing search for optimal battery electrolytes.

Oral presentation at the 9th Congress on Ionic Liquids in Lyon, France.


21/04/2023

Frederik Philippi

Understanding Ionic Liquids in the bigger picture.

Invited oral presentation at the internal seminar of the group of Prof. Dr. C. Kay at Saarland University (Physical Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry).


24/10/2022

Frederik Philippi

Ionic Liquids. From understanding to Design.

Presentation at the Joint Seminar of the Yokohama National University Electrochemistry Lab in Yokohama, Japan.


08/2022

Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Tom Welton

Viscosity and design of imide ionic liquids – flexibility, fluorination, and mass of the anions.

Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar as well as the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2022 in Newry, Maine, USA.


06/2022

Frederik Philippi, Tom Welton, Daniel Dauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Kira Lieberkind Eliasen, Kristine Niss, Nathalie Bouscharain

Viscosity of Ionic Liquids – How Much Does Charge Matter?

Invited oral presentation at the “Viscous liquids and the glass transition. XVIII.” workshop of the Glass and Time Research Centre in Denmark.


06/2022

Frederik Philippi, Tom Welton, Daniel Dauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Kira Lieberkind Eliasen, Kristine Niss, Nathalie Bouscharain

Viscosity of Ionic Liquids – How Much Does Charge Matter?

Oral presentation at the 28th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts & Ionic Liquids (EUCHEMSIL2022).


03/2022

F.Philippi, T. Welton

Ionic Liquids: Why are they so viscous?

Digital poster presentation at the #RSCPoster Twitter Conference 2022


12/2021

F. Philippi, D. Rauber, K. Goloviznina, J. Beckmann, C. W. M. Kay, A. A. H Padua, T. Welton

Ether Groups in Ionic Liquids – is Flexibility Really the Key?

Oral presentation at the Virtual Christmas 2021 Meeting of the RSC Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group (MSILDG).


12/10/2021

F. Philippi, D. Rauber, J. Beckmann

Targeted Modifications – how to study ionic liquids.

Invited oral presentation during internal seminar of the Ionic Liquids Group at ENS Lyon.


29/09/2021

F. Philippi

Ionic Liquids: Custom Solvents for Future Challenges?

Invited poster presentation with pre-recorded flash talk for the Research Showcase 2021 of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London


07/07/2021

F. Philippi

Liquefying Ionic Liquids – Flexibility as design element.

Oral presentation at the Imperial College Postgraduate Symposium (Virtual).


03/2021

F. Philippi, T. Welton

Ionic Liquids – Custom Solvents for Future Challenges?

Digital poster presentation at the #RSCPoster Twitter Conference 2021.


30/11/2020

F. Philippi

Ionic Liquids and Conformational Flexibility.

Invited oral presentation on collective variables and metadynamics during the internal seminar of the Computational NanoElectrochemistry Group at Imperial College London (led by Dr. Clotilde S. Cucinotta).


07/09/2020

F. Philippi

Ionic Liquids in Saarbrücken and London.

Invited oral presentation during internal seminar of the group of Prof. Dr. C. Kay at Saarland University (Physical Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry, virtual).


07/2020

F. Philippi, D. Rauber, R. Hempelmann

Conformational Design Concepts for Anions in Ionic Liquids.

Oral presentation at the Virtual 2020 Summer Research Meeting of the RSC Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group (MSILDG).


03/2020

F. Philippi, P. Hunt, T. Welton

Conformational Flexibility in Ionic Liquids – Design your own Anion!

Digital poster presentation at the #RSCPoster Twitter Conference 2020.


25/07/2019

F. Philippi

Liquefying Ionic Liquids – An Overview.

Oral presentation for a visiting researcher (Ekaterina Izgorodina) during internal seminar.


2019

F. Philippi

Making Ionic Liquids Useful by Understanding Their Fundamental Behaviour.

Poster presentation at the President’s PhD Scholars Symposium 2019.


17/01/2019

F. Philippi

Making Ends Meet.

Oral presentation during internal meeting with the groups of Guang Feng (University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) and Alexei Kornyshev (Imperial College London).


12/2018

F. Philippi, D. Rauber, R. Hempelmann

Pushing Fluidity to its Limits: Multiple Ether Functionalisation in Phosphonium Ionic Liquids.

Oral presentation at the Christmas 2018 Research Meeting of the RSC Molten Salts Discussion Group (MSDG), Burlington House, London.

Professional Development

04/08/2024 – 09/08/2024

Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2024 in Maine, USA


03/08/2024 – 04/08/2024

Gordon Research Seminar on Ionic Liquids 2024 in Maine, USA


08/07/2024 – 10/07/2024

Dense ionic fluids Faraday Discussion, Burlington House, London, United Kingdom.


21/11/2023 – 22/22/2023

The 13th Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Japan (第13回イオン液体討論会), Niigata, Japan


08/02/2023

JSPS Orientation, Co Mo Re Yotsuya tower, Tokyo, Japan.


23/10/2022

“Water Matters” Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2022, Special Guest (JSPS fellow), PACIFICO Yokohama Conference Center, Yokohama, Japan


07/08/2022 – 12/08/2022

Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2022 in Maine, USA


06/08/2022 – 07/08/2022

Gordon Research Seminar on Ionic Liquids 2022 in Maine, USA


23/06/2022 – 25/06/2022

Workshop “Viscous liquids and the glass transition. XVIII.” of the Glass and Time Research Centre in Denmark


05/06/2022 – 10/06/2022

28th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts & Ionic Liquids (EUCHEMSIL2022) in Patras, Greece.


13/12/2021

MSILDG Christmas meeting


05/07/2021 – 09/07/2021

Advanced School in Soft Condensed Matter – Solutions in the Summer 2021 (Summer School, held online remotely)


01/10/2018 – 01/07/2022

MARS professional recognition scheme


28/05/2019

5th Annual President’s PhD Scholars Symposium, Imperial College London


17/12/2018

MSILDG Christmas meeting

Grants and Awards

18/11/2023

Excellent poster award at the 13th Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Japan (第13回イオン液体討論会), Niigata, Japan


13/02/2023

MSCA fellowship (Project number 101108104, budget 195914.88 €)


01/08/2022

FY2022 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard) (18 Months, P22775, 6516000 ¥, additionally 1100000 ¥ KAKENHI “Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research”, grant number 22F22775)


01/04/2022

Conference funding to participate in the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2022, General Fund of the Imperial College Trust (400 £).


03/2022

1st Place #RSCPhys Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference (120 £).


25/03/2022

RSC Researcher Development Grant to participate in EUCHEMSIL2022 (grant number D22-183, 500 £).


07/2021

First prize for the best presentation / talk at the Imperial College Postgraduate Symposium, section Environmental and Green Chemistry (100 £).


24/02/2020

RSC competitive travel grant (grant number T20-3008, 770.60 £) for participation in the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2020.


10/2018 – 31/03/2022

President’s PhD Scholarship (provided by Imperial College London , 73458 £, additionally 6000 £ consumables).


10/2014 – 09/2017

Deutschlandstipendium fellow (a scholarship provided by Evonik industries, 7200 €.


05/2017

GDCh award for an excellent bachelor’s degree in chemistry.